The NEA Big Read/ To Kill a Mockingbird is Here! National guest speaker Charles J. Shields will present the New York Times Bestseller MOCKINGBIRD: A Portrait of Harper Lee at the KICK OFF Saturday, February 4 at 1:00 p.m. The Kick Off event will feature Gospel music, Play excerpts, Trivia questions, and Prizes! For the entire month of February and ending on March 4th, The Big Read will offer many free and exciting activities!
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The NEA BIG READ To Kill a Mockingbird Calendar of Events
5:00 p.m. at the Stage Aurora Performance Hall
Stage Aurora Theatrical Company presents the 100 Youth Voices in MOTOWN CHRISTMAS, December 18, 2010 at 5:00pm located at the Stage Aurora Performance Hall, 5188 Norwood Avenue (inside Gateway Town Center). This Holiday concert is quickly becoming an annual sing- along tradition.
Jump start your holiday season with a stroll down Motown’s Memory Lane! Experience the smooth moves and sounds of The Temptations’ THIS CHRISTMAS, Gladys Knight and the Pips’ DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HERE, Michael Jackson’s SANTA CLAUSE and much more. Come hear The 100 Youth Voices sing the harmonious hits of yesteryear and spread holiday cheer!
Sponsored in part by TARGET
A PAL production of Stage Aurora Theatrical Company
Appropriate for 3-8 Year olds
Friends: James, Mary, & George (A Black History Month Celebration) tells the story of James Weldon Johnson, Mary McLeod Bethune, and George Washington Carver as kids in an elementary school classroom. The assignment for the day is Black History and how each of the youngsters can become a part of History.
James discusses and demonstrates music, George discusses the peanut, and Mary is a lady with a focus on learning and school.
FRIENDS: James, Mary, and George is a great audience participatory artistic work for early learning literacy!
FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF
Stage Aurora Theatrical Company continues its season with the Award winning Broadway
Play and Film, FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE
RAINBOW IS ENUF by Ntozake Shange in honor of Mother's Day, May 8th at 3:00 p.m. at the Stage
Aurora Performance Hall —5188 Norwood Avenue, Jacksonville, FL.
This passionately-feminist spellbinding choreopoem is
a fluid collection of vivid prose and free verse narratives about and
performed by black women. Through dance, music, and poetry, the women
are united in sorrow, spirit, pride and soul.
Ticket prices are:
Advance -$15 adults, at the Door -$20. $10 seniors and students. Group
rates are available. To purchase tickets, contact the Box Office at
(904) 765-7372 or (904) 765-7373 or visit www.stageaurora.org
Mother's Day Performance:
Sunday, May 8 at 3:00 p.m.
Stage Aurora Performance Hall 5188 Norwood Avenue (Inside Gateway Town Center)
For tickets, call Stage Aurora Theatrical Company at (904) 765-7372
OR (904) 765-7373 Or find us Online at www.stageaurora.org or Ticketleap.com
Adults: $15/ Adv. & $20/Door Seniors and Students (with I. D.) $10/Adv. & $13/Door
FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF
Stage Aurora Theatrical Company Mahogany Ensemble continues its season with the Award winning Broadway Play and Film, FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF by Ntozake Shange, March 18 -20 and 25 -27 at the Stage Aurora Performance Hall —5188 Norwood Avenue, Jacksonville, FL.
Stage Aurora commemorates Women’s History Month with this production of For Colored Girls… This passionately-feminist spellbinding choreopoem is a fluid collection of vivid prose and free verse narratives about and performed by black women. Through dance, music, and poetry, the women are united in sorrow, spirit, pride and soul.
Tickets will go on sale starting March 1, 2011. Ticket prices are: Advance -$15 adults, at the Door -$20. $10 seniors and students. Group rates are available. To purchase tickets, contact the Box Office at (904) 765-7372 or (904) 765-7373 or visit www.stageaurora.org
Performances are:
Fridays, March 18 and March 25 at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 19 at 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 26 at 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Sundays, March 20 and March 27 at 3:00 p.m.
Stage Aurora Performance Hall 5188 Norwood Avenue (Inside Gateway Town Center)
For tickets, call Stage Aurora Theatrical Company at (904) 765-7372
OR (904) 765-7373 Or find us Online at www.stageaurora.org or Ticketleap.com
Adults: $15/ Adv. & $20/Door Seniors and Students (with I. D.) $10/Adv. & $13/Door
Calling all campers interested in the Performing Arts. If your child has an interest in the performing arts: theatre, drama, dance, music, etc. and would like to grow and share their talent with other talented youth, call now to enroll them in this annual performing arts summer camp. The camp runs for four-weeks and is co-sponsored by the Jacksonville Children's Commission.
TO REGISTER: A 50% DEPOSIT is required with complete Application.
ALL DEPOSITS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE
JCC Camperships available for those who qualify up to age 15
Field Trips include:
ALICE IN WONDERLAND -Theatreworks
CASEY AND THE BAT -Theatreworks
*field trips are subject to change*
The four-week camp will allow camp participants to showcase skills learned in the annual A NIGHT OF ENTERTAINMENT. Family, friends, neighbors, Pastors, and all are welcome to attend the performance and show their support for each camper.
Call Stage Aurora at (904) 765-7372 to REGISTER
TV Star Ella Joyce and R & B Recording Artist Algebra Blessett headline the 4th Annual Aurora Jacksonville Black Arts Festival, July 22-24, 2011. Actress Ella Joyce, best known for her co-starring role of Eleanor on FOX TV's "Roc", and Jasmine on "My Wife & Kids, captures the famous moment in the life of Rosa Parks, affectionately called "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement", in her highly acclaimed, one-woman play A Rose Among Thorns Created & Performed by ELLA JOYCE and Directed by Dan Martin. Algebra Blessett will perform in Concert singing some of her favorite hits! The three- day festival will be held at the Stage Aurora Performance Hall inside of Gateway Town Center located at 5188 Norwood Avenue.
Stage
Aurora Theatrical Company and the Mainstage, launched in 2003 by Darryl Reuben
Hall, has produced a variety of classics including Pulitzer Prize winners TO
KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and DRIVING MISS DAISY; MISS EVERS’ BOYS,
DREAMGIRLS, and community favorite Darryl Reuben Hall’s FRAT HOUSE.
SPECIAL
PROGRAMMING Ticket Prices
A
ROSE AMONG THORNS starring Ella Joyce: $20/ Adv. & $25/Door
ALGEBRA
BLESSETT: $20/ Adv. & $25/Door
FREE
PROGRAMMING
MOVIES
AT THE AURORA with Free Popcorn
THE
AURORA KIDZ ZONE: Face Painting, Games
FRIENDS:
James, Mary, and George; Theatre
OCEANUS
Training Center Tae Kwan Do Exhibition
CHILDREN’S
PROGRAMMING Ticket Prices
100
YOUTH VOICES CONCERT: $7/Adv $10/Door
GENERAL
PROGRAMMING Ticket Prices
RICHARD
AND OSCAR: Filmmaking in Black and White
Seniors
and Students (with I. D.) $10/Adv. & $13/Door
For
ticket information, call Stage Aurora Theatrical Company at (904) 765-7372 OR
(904) 765-7373, or find us online at www.stageaurora.org or Ticketleap.com.